Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Supernatural 9.10 Review: Power Struggles

Anyone that has yet to watch last
night’s episode of Supernatural
entitled ‘Road Trip’, please kindly step away from the screen and go and do
that. For this is not a spoiler free blog. THIS
REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! You’ve been warned.

While I was very much hoping the
entire time that Kevin would magically come back to life, this was still a
pretty decent episode. We happily got to see Tahmoh Penikett grace our screens
again, and it seems like he may be sticking around for a bit as Gadreel.
Abbadon made her rounds this week once again, and it seems that her and Crowley
may be vying for constituents now that the latter is free from the Winchester’s
cletches. And an angel free Sam – who better get that tattoo back on his chest
now that Castiel burned it off him – is finally back after all these weeks. All
in all, it was a very packed episode this week.

The way this episode opened up,
with the hunter funeral for Kevin and Dean trashing the bunker research area,
was very well done, although I would liked to have at least heard the crashing
of the lamps and books as Dean tossed them around them, it would’ve been more
visceral. Also, watching Dean pat his baby (the Impala for all you not Supernatural-ly inclined) was
characterally brilliant and on key. I was a bit surprised, though, that they
couldn’t just use one of the vehicles from the bunker, rather than the pimp
mobile Cas was driving. There were a lot of great little details that added up
to this episode.

Although I do still feel like this
season is headed more in the direction of what used to make this show great, I
am still a little worried by how heavily angels and demons this episode was
involved. Don’t get me wrong, they have their uses, and I always enjoy seeing
Cas, but sometimes there are just too many of them. I really wish that this
show wouldn’t try to be too mythologically heavy. It was nice to have the
little ghouls and cheerleaders shout out in Sam’s dream, though.

Basically, this wasn’t too bad of
an episode. I try to think of myself as a more glass is half full kind of girl,
so this episode was pretty good. I still don’t like having to see Metatron so
damned much, but I understand he has his uses. And while I’m not the biggest
war between the demons fan, at least when we see Crowley we know what we’re
getting, whereas Abbadon is a loose canon. The way they end this episode was heartbreaking
in the way that Sam told Dean to go. I know he’d basically gotten him
possessed, but they’re brothers, family is supposed to stick by each other. Why
didn’t Sam stop him?

Okay, folks, that’ll be all for catch up tonight. Go back to
your own business and check back in tomorrow night for reviews of Revolution, American Horror Story: Coven, and Nashville, and maybe a couple other catch up reviews.